Hundreds of government and military officials have gone public in discussing a UFO cover-up, some claiming to have been personally involved.An intriguing article posted to examiner.com yesterday presented the text and video of a recent C-SPAN interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon. Aldrin raised eyebrows by suggesting possible UFO involvement with a monolith on a moon of Mars.

An additional recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle quotes Aldrin, "There's a monolith on Phobos. It's about 15 meters high. And aliens put it there before they came to Egypt to build the pyramids." The article suggests he was only joking, yet was he?

Mercury and Gemini astronaut Gordon Cooper has gone on record describing a personal UFO experience, "A saucer flew right over, put down three landing gears, and landed on the dry lakebed. [The cameramen] went out there with their cameras towards the UFO. It lifted off and flew off at a very high rate of speed... I had a chance to hold [the film] up to the window. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt that it was made someplace other than on this earth."

Roscoe Hillenkoetter, an admiral and former chief of the CIA stated in a 1960 article in the New York Times, "It is time for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings. Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel."

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, has stated, "Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. People in high level government have very little, if any, valid information about this. It has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out."

General Vasily Alexeyev of Russia's Space Communications Center has publicly commented, "[The Air Force] came up with a table with pictures of all the shapes of UFOs that had ever been recorded – about fifty – ranging from ellipses and spheres to something resembling spaceships... The study of UFOs may reveal some new forms of energy, or at least bring us closer to a solution."

These are only a few of many well-known individuals who have spoken out on aliens and UFOs. Others include a former minister of defense from the U.K., a former minister of defense from Canada, and the former chief of accidents and investigations at the FAA. To read and verify their public statements about a major cover-up of UFOs, click here.

Could all of these officials be lying or deluded? Even if it were just one or two high-level individuals making these claims, it would be worth investigating. Yet literally hundreds of these people have been publicly videotaped or interviewed by the major media making astonishing claims about a UFO cover-up.

This raises serious questions. If these respected government officials are lying, why? What purpose would it serve to open themselves to ridicule with UFO claims? If it is a conspiracy to get us to believe in UFOs, what's the purpose of that? And if they are deluded, we may have a serious mass delusion spreading in government that needs to be addressed.

The more likely conclusion is that there is at least some truth to what these officials are claiming. For a highly engaging, informative video presenting witness testimony of these officials and fascinating footage of UFOs, watch what may be the best UFO documentary ever made below. Titled Out of the Blue, it was one of the most popular shows ever presented on the Sci-Fi channel.

To watch the second half of Out of the Blue and learn more about it, click here.

The above witness testimony and further evidence collected on UFOs by many serious researchers suggest that we are not alone in the universe. In fact, there may be UFOs and ETs near our planet who are monitoring the development of humankind. If these aliens had wanted to destroy or enslave us, they could easily have done so centuries or millennia ago. Maybe there is, in fact, a prime directive like that in Star Trek which mandates no interference in developing species which have not achieved interplanetary travel.